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BC 2026 release wave 2unofficial launch event map, by waldo

Features › Expense Agent

Planned alternate approver

announced · 1 min in 1 video · dev relevance low · not in the documented features baseline (docs checked 2026-10-02)

Planned alternate approver

An approver plans an alternate for a date range. Expense reports are redirected automatically in that period.

Area: Expense Agent. Status: announced. Developer relevance: low. Airtime: 1 min across 1 video.

Status evidence

  • 10:11 in "What's new in Expense Agent: Improved Approval Process": "this is what how we will have about alternate and delegated approvers from November"

Where they talk about it

Quotes

  • no validated quote falls inside this feature's time range

Caveats mentioned

  • Alternate must be an approver

Prerequisites mentioned

  • Alternate is set up as an approver

Documented features match

  • No documented item matched. Not documented

Docs checked on 2026-10-02: the match is against Microsoft's what's new pages for the wave as they were on that date. Microsoft keeps filling the documentation, so "no documented item" can go stale. The wider product documentation on learn.microsoft.com was searched for this feature on the same date; the feature's data lists an article when one was found.

Tags: expense, approvals, delegation, workflow

Generated by pipeline step 06. Source: YouTube auto-captions of the launch event videos, see the deep links. Not official.